countryside
countryside
nounDefinition of COUNTRYSIDE
the open rural area outside of big towns and cities <everyone hates to see the countryside ruined by new developments>
Related Words exurbia; backcountry, backwater, backwoods, bush, frontier, hinterland, outback, up-country; wild, wilderness
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